| SanAndreasX said: The demographics of the country had changed. In 1890 and 1930, the two most populous states were New York and Pennsylvania, which were the two most populous states until the 1950s, when California and then Texas overtook them, and now Florida. The country's centers of population were in the North. Now the South wields an awful lot of power. And I don't see them willingly relinquishing it. |
With climate change and the deconstruction of federal programs that make living in certain states viable, that will of course change as well. These are the projections for the economic effects of climate change.
And states by federal aid.
Also a lot of the movement to "The South" is to the purpling East Coast South (Georgia, Carolinas, Virginia) and not the Deep South. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma are growing less than much of the North.
Sunbelt western states are growing a lot, but they aren't "The South." Florida and Texas are growing a lot too, but in Florida's case it is mostly boomer retirees and immigrants (whom Trump is hoping to deport), and in Texas's case it is purplish demographics.
